I'm Spencer, I recently built Five to help me prioritize my day.
Five is a very simple app, you can only have Five outstanding tasks, and until you complete one you cannot add more.
Before Five, I would overwhelm my to-do lists with an endless amount of tasks, to the point where I needed to delete them. I had stopped keeping a to-do list completely before this app.
The app has helped me manage my ADHD by forcing me to priortize and complete tasks so I can add more, I am also better able to say no to new tasks now. It has also meant that I need to make the tasks small enough I can actually complete them, to be able to add new tasks to my list.
I built the app quickly and got it live because I think others could benefit from the concept of limiting your to-list like this. It currently is available on iPhone (iOS16+) only as I could build quickly that way using the latest features of SwiftUI. I build in public can you follow me on twitter for updates: https://twitter.com/Swaldy
I did this on paper until all slots were "blocked" with tasks that became critically important but which (due to shame and feelings of embarassment associated with them) I would never start or finish, then I abandoned the system.
Although this might clash with the idea of keeping the app simple perhaps you could add a prioritizing mode by assigning "urgent", "important" (or both) labels to tasks and ranking them that way[0]
Best of luck for your app! Have you planned to release an Android version at a later point or is your focus solely on iOS?
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 10.5 ms ] threadI'm Spencer, I recently built Five to help me prioritize my day.
Five is a very simple app, you can only have Five outstanding tasks, and until you complete one you cannot add more.
Before Five, I would overwhelm my to-do lists with an endless amount of tasks, to the point where I needed to delete them. I had stopped keeping a to-do list completely before this app.
The app has helped me manage my ADHD by forcing me to priortize and complete tasks so I can add more, I am also better able to say no to new tasks now. It has also meant that I need to make the tasks small enough I can actually complete them, to be able to add new tasks to my list.
I built the app quickly and got it live because I think others could benefit from the concept of limiting your to-list like this. It currently is available on iPhone (iOS16+) only as I could build quickly that way using the latest features of SwiftUI. I build in public can you follow me on twitter for updates: https://twitter.com/Swaldy
You can see the app in the app store here: https://apple.co/3EmSwlz
Although this might clash with the idea of keeping the app simple perhaps you could add a prioritizing mode by assigning "urgent", "important" (or both) labels to tasks and ranking them that way[0]
Best of luck for your app! Have you planned to release an Android version at a later point or is your focus solely on iOS?
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower...